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Gavros
5:44 Sun Jan 6
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yogib 3:56 Wed Aug 29
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Tubby Isaacs for prawns with black pepper and vinegar- is the stall still on the Mile End Road? Not been round there for years.
Long gone, that. Oddly the only remaining part of the Isaacs empire is (was?) In Clacton
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Gavros
5:41 Sun Jan 6
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I remember those turps drunks way back. They always looked like the most tragic fuckers around. Too gone to even be considered alchies.
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eusebiovic
5:17 Sun Jan 6
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Thought that I would resurrect this thread...
At this moment there is an amazing room of photographs at Tate Britain which captures all of the above from the mid 70's up until the early 90's
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/marketa-luskacova-15785
There are more pictures on display than the link but for copyright reasons Tate can't show all of them on the website.
Not only that but they have a Don McCullin exhibition starting on the 5th February which has many of his iconic photos of poverty and squalor in Spitalfields
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neilalex
2:48 Fri Aug 31
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I used to live just off Wentworth St for a while in one of the old buildings converted into flats. Drank in the Duke of Wellington on Toynbee St when it was run by Loius. Think a couple on here remember that, it was a great boozer.
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J.Riddle
2:32 Fri Aug 31
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A mates mum, family from Bethnal Green had stall on Petticoat land which he would help run on a Sunday. His mum divorced and they moved south so would get the bus up with him. His dad was best mates with Terry Spinks. Bought a flight jacket from the skins shop in Brick Lane and used to go to Roman Rd and Deptford market sometimes East St as birds family was from there. Passed through Petticoat lane last year and it was full of African shops?
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eusebiovic
12:34 Fri Aug 31
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Blackmans sell moody doc maertens...they may look the same but they don't feel the same
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Far Cough
5:27 Thu Aug 30
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"The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing"
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Percy Dalton
4:52 Thu Aug 30
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My first job as an apprentice carpenter and joiner was in Flower and Dean street and Wentworth street Whitechapel.
I was there for six weeks hanging doors in the old tenement flats.
Wasn't till I was older that I found out that Jack the ripper frequented that area.
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Dwight Van Mann
11:27 Wed Aug 29
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the apple fritter stall on a cold Sunday morning was the bollox
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Briano
11:22 Wed Aug 29
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I used to work on a mates stall on Toynbee street in the 70's,
I remember Those live chicken shops where you picked them out and they cut the heads off
Early 80's was contracting in Trumans Brewery in Brick Lane
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BubblesCyprus
4:01 Wed Aug 29
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Grandad BC used to take me to Club Row on pretext of seeing the pets for sale.
Reality was cheap gear for me ( shoes IIRC) after that Jewish Bakers get seafood for Sunday night walk home to Forest Gate via a Pub the name of which no idea was to young to be intrested in beer
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wanstead_hammer
4:01 Wed Aug 29
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o1bb. 3:23
Haha. Yeh, the lane etc was the way of life on a Sunday for east enders.
Me grandad on mums side was from Ratcliffe. They grew up/mainly lived near kate odders though.
Me mate still lives top of white horse rd (near the 'oil shop' and where the bakers used to be). Normally meet up for a light ale if not over West Ham. Was there last week and then got a bus along to the Londoner, then one down burdett rd to Mile End in way home.
Star in the east still there. Nearly went through that big cellar door a few times.
Yeh, changed along there, as things do.
It's Chalk and cheese, one side of the road to the other!
NS - yeh that was mainly 70s. They used to use the Blade Bone pub just along fm the lane and sell their papers on the corner of B.Green rd with the Antii-nazi lot on the other corner selling Socialist Worker. They'd mainly disappeared by 80s.
On that junction now, there's a 'Pret-a-manger' and a hipster 'coffee lounge/bar'. 🙄
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yogib
3:56 Wed Aug 29
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Tubby Isaacs for prawns with black pepper and vinegar- is the stall still on the Mile End Road? Not been round there for years.
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only1billybonds
3:31 Wed Aug 29
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Sold0
Quite a bit of that went on in the mid 70's around Brick Lane,thought the NF were pretty much old news by the time the 80's rolled along.
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Northern Sold
3:25 Wed Aug 29
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Wasn't Brick Lane in the 80's where all the NF cunts used to go for their Sunday `p**i bashing` sessions??
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only1billybonds
3:23 Wed Aug 29
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Blimey Wanstead, that's dug up some memories. On a Sunday I'd walk to the bakers at Stepney station just along from the railway arch from our gaff in Limehouse,next door to the Enterprise pub. I'd a couple of tin loaves of at me Nan's just aling from the Star if the East boozer (limehouse). Back home,change in to full West Ham kit and run about like a loon until dinner time. If my Mum had had a touch on the horses she would take me and my sistrer down the lane on the 15 bus if the old man couldnt be nagged into driving.
Tea time it'd be all round to Grandads for the sea food feast and i mean all. My old man had 5 brothers and it was an unwritten law that all of them turned up at half 5 on the dot,wives and kids in tow. My aunt Ada would sit at the piano and start belting out some racket loosely described as tunes.
Where i grew up has all gone now,its all part of the wharf but Grandad's place is still there on East India Dock rd,i still get a shiver when i pass it. Much simpler but very happy times.
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joe royal
2:36 Wed Aug 29
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Thanks.
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defjam
2:29 Wed Aug 29
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Kettle = Watch
Kettle and hob = Fob (watch)
Capiche.
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Hasans Fish Bar RIP
2:28 Wed Aug 29
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Watches Joe. Kettle and hob - fob
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joe royal
2:17 Wed Aug 29
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Kettles?
I get the tom reference.
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wanstead_hammer
2:12 Wed Aug 29
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Me grandad and dad used to take me down the lane most Sundays (70s). Used to walk through fm Stepney Green to vallance rd.
Loads of dossers selling old crap to earn a couple of bob.
A few old indoor factory units/railway arches selling boiler suits/work clobber.
Loads of stalls along Cheshire and Blackmans. (And there used to be a midget just standing in one of the shop windows as you got nearer to the junction (used to frighten the lives out of all the kids).
At the junction on the left by the rail bridge was the original Shoreditch station. (Nothing along that bit). This was the boundary to us.
(Now there's all the pop up food stalls for hipsters/tourists and indoor bric-a-brac markets/retro stuff and coffee shops, leading up to the old Trumans brewery and the ruby murray restaurants).
Right at the junction goes down to Bethnal Green rd.
used to banged out with stalls/the pickled herring man (me old man used to get his prawns/winkles off his mate Reggie Graham)
Couple of pubs along that bit where he'd ave a livener while I had me apple fritter outside.
Straight across at the junction, stalls selling unlabelled/dented tinned food (5 for a couple of bob),and he'd take a chance on em. . Like Russian roulette. And he'd buy a cake (normally Madeira/angel cake/battenburg.
On the other corner was the east end front wheels selling all the tom/kettles and valuing any for sale with their monocle. The kettles kept inside their overcoats.
Along to club row. All the cats and dogs in what seemed like giant cots. Like a lot of others, he got us a few pups, but they didn't normally survive long (distemper etc). There was arches with aquarium/fish tanks with 'tropical' fish and goldfish for sale.
Parrots/minor birds and small monkeys for sale.
Then back home, the old man going down the pub for the Sunday dinner time light ale and bar spread. We'd be out playing 15-a-side over the green.
Then the 'big Sunday tea'.
All the fish food, bit of salad.
Then, "who wants some peaches?" All waiting in anticipation but when he opened the tins, it'd be tomatoes!!
Me old man used to know a lot of the stallholders, being a Bethnal Green boy. He's 88 now but still pops down with me now and again and there's still a few old boys that he knows still about down there.
Only got took down Petticoat lane now and again.
Tubby Isaacs at the Aldgate end. Then down goulston st and Wentworth st.
Was mainly original front wheels selling shoes/leathers/clobber/cutlery/kosher food/union jack bits. Was always mobbed down there with eastenders/tourists
Only really started going regular when older in the late 70's/early 80s for clobber. (And as already said the Last Resort was the in-place).
'appy days!
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